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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 191 



11 



Japan Bamboo Stakes 



Strong, durable, do not decay like 



the Southern cane or wooden stakes. 



IV e offer: 



Suitable for Roses, Gladioli, 

 Lilies, Chrysanthemums, Pot 

 and Herbaceous Plants, etc. 



100 1000 



Ureen colored, 2 ft. .75 $ 6.00 



Green colored, 3 ft. $1.50 10.00 

 Natural colors, 6 ft. 1.00 6.00 



For DAHLIAS, Polebeans.Tomatoes, Big Shrubs.Young 

 Trees and anywhere STRONG SUPPORT is needed. 



7x8 ft. long 1-1 1^ Inch diameter 



dozen 



$1.00 



100 



$7.00 



25 at lOO rate — 250 at lOOO rate 



Our new Fall Catalogue containing a full and 

 descriptive list of all 



Bulbs for House and Garden 



Hyacinths, Narcissus, Tulips, Lilies, Crocus, etc. 

 will be ready early August. 



If not on our mailing list, send us your name — 

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Our Catalogue w^ill surely please and interest 

 you. Full directions to grow Bulbs successfully. 

 Also camplete Seed List for Fall sow^ing. 



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The King of All the Buttercups 



PERHAPS the globe flower has never been held 

 • under a child's chin, the while he or she 

 was asked the question: "Do you like butter?" 

 It resembles a great big glorified buttercup, how- 

 ever, and it belongs to the same order of crowfoots, 

 though its family name is TroUius. So buttercup 

 royal let it be, as a word is spoken for a flower 

 that is at once among the most beautiftil and the 

 most neglected. 



Time was when the globe flower was tolerably 

 well known in gardens here, both the European 

 and the Asiatic types being cultivated, but, like 

 so many other old favorites, it seems to have quietly 

 dropped out of sight and nowadays one seldom 

 runs across it. The sooner it is restored to the 

 gardens of hardy plants the sooner will they have 

 a flower that, in the alliance of rich yellows with 

 perfection of form, is indispensable. The large 

 yellow cups are borne high above the finely cut 

 foliage and in a good-sized clump of one variety 

 the effect is among the most attractive that the 

 gardens has to offer. Robinson, in "The English 

 Flower Garden," not only calls them "free and 

 telling among stout herbaceous plants," but says 

 that they may be "easily naturalized in moist, 

 grassy places or by water." So to bed and border 

 near the house may be added the brookside and 

 the edge of the pond in the wilder parts of a country 

 place as equally congenial for one of the most 



The globe flow^ei: resembles a large double but- 

 tercup. Plant it wherever you can find space {Trol- 

 lius Asiaticus) 



decorative plants of erect habit. Certainly this 

 ought to be a welcome suggestion to all who have 

 gone in for naturalizing. 



If relegated to the wild it should be allowed to 

 stand out well from its surroundings, though even 

 as I have seen it in the crowded flowery meadows 

 of the vale of Chamounix in June its individuality 

 asserts itself. In Scotland, where the same species 

 is called "lucken gowan," it is found on river banks 

 and in moist places. While it is doubtless most to 

 their liking if the long black roots are able to pene- 

 trate to a subsoil that is tolerably moist, globe- 

 flowers thrive in ordinary garden ground if it is 

 not allowed to become abnormally dry. 



There are three distinct types of globe flower, 

 and they are all to be had for the garden or natur- 

 alizing. The most gorgeous is the orange globe 

 flower, TroUius Asiaticus, which is a native of 

 Japan and China, because of its deep, rich hue, 

 changing to almost a red in the anthers. Years ago 

 there was apparently only one from Asia, but now 

 there are Asiaticus flore croceo, Japonicus excel- 

 sior, Caucasicus Orange Globe and Fire Globe. 

 In England there is also to be had TroUius acaulis, 

 a dwarf bog plant from the Himalayas, with bright 

 yellow blossoms suffused with purple on the out- 



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 Big Trees 



Don't wait for small trees to grow up— buy them grown up. 

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